System Center Orchestrator

System Center Orchestrator (aka Opalis) is a great tool ! Orchestrator is a workflow management solution for the data center. Orchestrator lets you automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment.

In my projects, I use it to automate Windows Azure deployments and a lot of operations tasks like SQL Azure backups….

This is for me, a must-have tool for IT Pros and a good bridge between developers and IT Pros. A good step for DevOps approach !